Internet

Access to the Internet is available to all NT schools. Internet access and usage is filtered through central content filters. By utilising content filtering across the NTSchools network, DET is seeking to ensure that its students are not exposed to web sites that may be offensive, upsetting or inappropriate while at school.

Systemic Content Filtering
At the systemic level, identified categories of web sites and services have been blocked. The categories that have been blocked include: Adult/Mature Content, Extreme, Gambling, Games, Hacking, Humor/Jokes, Illegal Drugs, Illegal/Questionable, Non Viewable, Pay to Surf, Peer-to-Peer (2P2), Personals/Dating, Phishing, Pornography, Proxy Avoidance, Remote Access Tools, Spyware Effects/Privacy Concerns, Spyware/Malware Sources, Suspicious, Violence/Hate/Racism, Weapons

If specific sites that fall under these categories are needed for educational purposes, school staff can have these sites made available by completing the 'Addition to the Whitelist Request Form'.

Identified sites can then be added to the central 'whitelist', overriding the category blocking of that particular site. The sites then become available to schools within a day. Changes made on the central whitelist effect all web sites that are available to all schools connected to the NTSchools network.